Janet’s Favorite Lifegiver Resources
Podcasts
- Revive Our Hearts podcast and website (videos, articles, audio and video messages, blog) Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth and others provide a life-giving daily dose of Christ-centered teaching directed toward women.
- Fighting for Joy podcast with Jodi Blick (dealing with grief)
Book reviewer
Book reviews and today’s kindle deals for Christians: Tim Challies
Book distributor
Shorter books, careful about what is sold, discount seller: 10ofThose
Books
- Calvary Road by Roy Hession
- Continuous Revival by Norman Grubb.
Short books about staying connected to Jesus, the key to lifegiving. Available on Amazon but the links above are to free pdf downloads.
Biographies
- Charlie’s Victory by Charlie and Lucy Wedemeyer (1993) Charlie (1946-2010), diagnosed with ALS, continued to coach football with Lucy’s help and they both lived to encourage others for over 30 years after Charlie’s diagnosis. The documentary Courage to Live and the movie Quiet Victory also tell his story.
- Evidence Not Seen by Darlene Rose (2003 edition, originally published 1988) Inspiring story of a young woman who trusted Christ in a Japanese prison camp. Hard to put down and inspires faith in Jesus.
- Frontier Lady by Sarah Royce (1977, originally published 1932) One of my all time favorites…true first hand recollections of Sarah Royce of her journey to and life in early California during the Gold Rush. Her dependence on God and His miraculous provision for her personally, especially through other lifegivers, results in the praise of God’s love and power in the life of one woman.
- The Hospital by the River Catherine Hamlin (2016 edition, originally published 2001) Story of the Fistula Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The story is also told in the documentary Walk to Beautiful.
- Letters of a Woman Homesteader Elinore Pruitt Stewart (2012 edition, originally published 1914) From a lady who went as a single woman to Wyoming in the days of homesteading. Delightful. The above link is to the Amazon version but there is also a free version here.
- Matriarch of Conspiracy by Jane Pejsa (1998 edition, originally published 1991) The Bonhoeffer biography by Eric Metaxis led me to this story of Ruth Von Kleist, the grandmother of Bonhoeffer’s fiancé. Ruth’s story is fascinating, but you need to know the background story of Bonhoeffer to fully appreciate it.
- May’s Boy Shirlee Monte (1981)The story of May Lemke and how she, through faith in God and perseverance, brought life to a seemingly hopeless baby. Out of print, but used copies available.
- May’s Boy: The Rest of the Story 2012 recap and continuation of May’s Boy, available in print or kindle version.
- My Life’s Journey by Janet Museveni (2011)This is the story of the first lady of Uganda. I first saw her on a video in 2000, dedicating her nation to the Lord Jesus Christ. A wife, mother, and grandmother, she has worked tirelessly in her country for life: abstinence-only sex education programs, care of orphans, taking Ugandan responsibility instead of depending on Western nations. From her website, “Above all Janet Museveni is a professed and active Christian whose work and life is driven by principles of faith and divine driven purpose.”
- Rich in Love: When God Rescues Messy People Irene Garcia (2014) About a family in California who have birthed, adopted, or fostered 32 children, many with special needs. Several youtube videos about their story.
- Song of Survival by Helen Colijn (1995) Helen tells of her imprisonment in a Japanese prison camp in WW2 and includes the story of lifegiver Margaret Drybugh who arranged classical music for a vocal orchestra which performed in the camp. Helen donated the hand-written musical scores to Stanford University and the high quality arrangements were first performed by the Peninsula Women’s Chorus in Palo Alto, CA, and the sheet music is now available for choruses everywhere to perform. You can hear a bit of the story and the Captives’ Hymn composed by Margaret Dryburgh here.
